Security News > 2020 > October > CISA Warns of Remote Code Execution Bugs in Visual Studio, Windows Codecs Library
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency on Friday informed users about the availability of patches for two remote code execution vulnerabilities that affect Windows Codecs Library and Visual Studio Code.
Residing in Visual Studio Code and tracked as CVE-2020-17023, the second vulnerability can be triggered when the user opens a malicious 'package.
An attacker can trick the victim into cloning a repository and then opening it using Visual Studio Code, which would result in the attacker's code being executed on the victim's device.
The vulnerability in Visual Studio was identified by Justin Steven, who in early October revealed on Twitter that Microsoft last month released a botched fix for CVE-2020-16881, a remote code execution bug in Visual Studio Code that could be triggered in a similar manner, through malicious 'package.
"Microsoft Visual Studio Code seems to have botched the fix for CVE-2020-16881, a 'remote code execution' vulnerability regarding 'malicious package.json files'. The patch can be trivially bypassed," Steven said, complaining that Microsoft isn't forthcoming about the bug's details.
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| DATE | CVE | VULNERABILITY TITLE | RISK |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-10-16 | CVE-2020-17023 | Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Visual Studio Code <p>A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Visual Studio Code when a user is tricked into opening a malicious 'package.json' file. | 7.8 |
| 2020-09-11 | CVE-2020-16881 | Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Visual Studio Code <p>A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Visual Studio Code when a user is tricked into opening a malicious 'package.json' file. | 7.8 |